So many questions still to be asked. It is noted that he was absent sick at muster out. that would be mid 1865. Did he head south or did he in fact join Co C of the 5th. U.S. Cavalry then after that service head home to Ga. At this juncture I feel he probably did. However I feel that in his heart of hearts he was still a rebel and left little trace of his involvement with his former Union comrades or Regiment. It kind of looks as though after Gettysburg and capture at South Mountain he did a deal and then fell into the bureaucratic hand written note system of communication used at the time to get him "attached" to a Union regiment and then enrolled into a regiment operating somewhere else in this case Fort Delaware. After the war he applied fo a pension but this was refused.

This man appears to have kept his original name. Peter Kivett was born about 1846 in Randolph County N. Carolina to Eli and Scotton Kivett. We do not know as now where he enlisted into the 22nd Regt. North Carolina Vols.(Confederate Army). We know he also had brothers also in the regiment in Co. M where he was serving.
He would appear to have deserted as seen from records on hand to the Union Army on or about March 12th 1864 long after Gettysburg. He was captured by Federal cavalry and was imprisoned in Point Lookout prison in the Wash D.C area.Here he would appear to have been offered the traditional deal, fight out West against the Indians or stay a prisoner. He would appear to have accepted the deal and threw in his lot with the Union Army on March 17th 1864 after taking the oath of allegiance to the Union. He was assigned to the 69th Pa. and was then sent to join or more likely enrolled into the 1st Conn. Cavalry who were serving at Fort Rigley in Minneota, well away from the action in the eastern States. On the Register of oaths and deserters of the Provost Marshall General Wash. D.C. he is recorded as Peter P Kevett Pvt. 22 N.C. Vols. The entry is dated: When received: March 12 1864. In the Where Sent From entry: Hqrs A. of P. (the army of the Potomac). In the Action Taken Column it states: Taken the oath of allegiance trans him to Phil Pa. About a week later from his new residence at Rockhill Township Pa. he enlisted into Co. A. of the 69th Pa. Infantry. More likely the authorities did the "enlisting" for him ie get him "on the books".

In the P.A. record card (see above) he was noted as being aged 19, with a florid complexion, about 5ft 9ins in height, brown eyes, and dark hair. His occupation was noted as being a farmer.
The other information recorded is that he had been been born at Point Lookout Va. and most interestingly noted as being a rebel deserter. Other informatio on hand is that his wife was called May or Mary and that they had three children the last being born in Illinois. May or Mary was born in N.C.
At this point we do not know what happend to him after his war service or whether he went back to N.C. or perhaps went to Illinois where his third child was born. He would appear to have stayed with the army until released by General Order from Wash. 15th Sept 1865.
I feel that he was never actually "in" the 69th as such but simply "assigned" in a process of a quick attachment link and then get rid of him fast out West where he would be out of harms way and also useful to the Federal troops facing the Indians.
A conclusion on both Davis and Kivett from what information is on hand is that they opted for "deals". Join the Union army and be deployed into the West and fight the Indians of stay in a northern prison such as the infamous Fort Delaware establishment into which hundreds of Confederates were dumped after Gettysburg.